The physical is a symbol of the spiritual world. The people who keep old rags, old useless objects, who hoard, accumulate; are they the hoarders and keepers of the old ideas, useless information, lovers of the past only, even if its a form of detritus? I have the opposite obsession. In order to change skins, […]
Change Quotes
You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too.
“Change” has a warm, vernal sound at age twenty-two. Then comes a day when all the word brings to mind is “any change in a wart or mole… “
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people’s lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.
All things change; nothing perishes.
So longstanding and so rapid have been these processes of change that expectation of change and anxiety about change have been built into our character as a people.
There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
